Rene Char Quotes

All an audience wants to believe is that what's going on is happening for the first time.

I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.